Details

5 trains with 6 cars per train. Riders are arranged 2 across in 2 rows for a total of 24 riders per train.

Facts:

Electric cable launch system with a pusher mechanism beneath the train.

For the Space Mountain's 10th anniversary, it was renovated featuring a new story, new effects and a new soundtrack. The trains were redone in metallic silver. The overall Verne / Orwell theme in Discoveryland along with the Canon Columbiad Space Mountain building stayed the same.

Etymology:

"De la terre à la lune" is French for "from the Earth to the Moon".

Theme:

Based on Jules Verne's "A Voyage to the Moon and a Trip Around It". In the story, the astronauts are launched from Earth by a giant canon.